EA Forum Podcast (All audio)

Today I'm launching SB53.info, a resource to help the public understand California's Senate Bill 53. The site shows the text of SB 53 enriched with annotations to explain its political and scientifi…

Summary:

Discovering EA recently has made me reconsider how I think about my career and impact. Instead of switching sectors entirely, I'm exploring how to bring EA principles into the work I'm alr…

Crosspost of my blog article.

I just took the Giving What We Can pledge, which is a pledge to give away at least 10% of my income over the course of my life to highly effective charities. I think yo…

The Forum Team crossposted this with permission from Secret Third Thing. The author may not see comments.

Listicles are hacky, I know. But in any case, here are ten AI safety projects I'm pretty int…

The most common way to identify the effective altruism movement is by pointing. Effective altruists are:

• The people who try to help the global poor in ways backed up by randomized controlled trials…

Martyn James | Co-founder of Clear Solutions

Martyn spent more than a decade at Google in technical partnership roles before exploring a career transition, realising that he was starting to feel a b…

Here's a Career Conversations Week debate for you:

Clarifications:

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I'm the 1Day Sooner program director for indoor air quality (IAQ). In practice, that means I research indoor air cleaning interventions (including how they work and their associated economics) and d…

Epistemic Status: These observations come from my personal experience trying to advance a specific idea (Profit for Good) while working full-time as a lawyer on unrelated work. I'm sharing my impres…

The cause prioritization landscape in EA is changing. Prominent groups have shut down, others have been founded, and everyone's trying to figure out how to prepare for AI. This is the third in a ser…

Posts from my ancestors: Aaron Gertler | Lizka Vaintrob

I love my job. I didn't expect to be in a job that I could be proud of just a few years after university, but now I am[1]. I'm very grateful f…

This forum—and the EA community surrounding it—is a bit of an echo chamber. We need people who care about EA values in the rest of the world for several reasons: influence and evangelism, cross-poll…

Over the past 4-5 years, I have poured a lot of time and energy into "doing good", through a combination of community building, policy advocacy, and volunteering with EA charities. On reflection, I …

The following text presents a condensed summary of "The state of global catastrophic risk research: a bibliometric review" by Jehn et al. (2025), published in Earth System Dynami…

I am writing this to reflect on my experience interning with the Fish Welfare Initiative, and to provide my thoughts on why more students looking to build EA experience should do something similar.

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TL;DR: Open Philanthropy (OP) is handing off monetary support for AI safety university group organizers to Kairos. Our new Pathfinder Fellowship will replace both OP's University Organizer Fellowshi…

This is a post on behalf of Open Philanthropy's GCR Capacity Building team announcing that, effective as of the publication of this post, we are closing down our university group funding program and…

There are interesting discussions on the Effective Altruism Forum concerning the welfare of the smallest but most abundant animals: Should we consider effects on soil nematodes, mites, and springta…

Cross-posted from my blog

Introduction

In 2009, Zambian economist Dambisa Moyo published Dead Aid, a scathing critique of Western development efforts in Africa. She argued that d…

Happy Career Conversations Week!

We are a group of recruiters at impact-focused organizations, and we’re happy to answer your questions about applying to jobs, work trials, interviewing, references,…